<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I installed Everpad a short while ago on Ubuntu with the Unity desktop. It fits well into the dash. However, GNOME 3 is my desktop of choice and it doesn't work in that. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The main thing I dislike about Unity is the common menu on the top panel. You can have a small window in the bottom right of your screen and you have to move your mouse up the the top left to enter the menu. It's also necessary to remember to focus on the window of choice before attempting to use the menu. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span>Brian<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John McLear <john@mclear.co.uk><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Brian <bradlug@techchico.org.uk>; BradfordLinuxUserGroup <bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 November 2012, 12:15<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Bradford] BCB: Conferencing<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv331794917">
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<div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="3">I'm biased here as I'm involved in etherpad but check out</font><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">http://beta.etherpad.org/p/bradlug</font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">features:</font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">real time collaborative editing</font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">video conferencing</font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">there is no "sketch" area for doodles etc which is a bummer however I know of a service we can use for that but it's flash based ;(</font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br></font><br><div style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div
id="yiv331794917SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="yiv331794917stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:49:51 +0000<br>From: bradlug@techchico.org.uk<br>To: bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: Re: [Bradford] BCB: Conferencing<br><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>OK, What about Zimbra then? VMware are doing their own corporate version of it so it must have some merits. However, it could be that the standard Zimbra is like comparing Fedora with Ubuntu. Having not tried it I wouldn't know.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>Brian<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div
dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alice Kaerast <alice@kaerast.info><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Brian
<bradlug@techchico.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 November 2012, 7:41<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] BCB: Conferencing<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv331794917ecxyiv275253550">It's also a complete pain to install and often randomly gives terrible audio quality for no apparent reason. Unfortunately it's the best of a bad bunch in terms of open source web conferencing systems.<div><br></div>
<div>Regards</div><div>Alice</div><div><br></div><div class="yiv331794917ecxyiv275253550gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv331794917ecxyiv275253550gmail_quote">On 29 November 2012 00:34, Brian <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv331794917ecxyiv275253550gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><div>I have found a few collaboration tools on line. I haven't really studied this one very much as yet but it may be worth considering. It appears to be intended for the education sector but it <span style="font-style:italic;">might</span> be useful for our purposes. <br>
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